How complicated can web hosting be? Hosting is a commodity right? Not so fast… While it’s true you can get website hosting for $5 a month (sometimes less), just because you can doesn’t mean you should. In the following video, taken from the 1st OpenCamp Meet Up, John P. explains the different types of website …Read More
5 Things To Stop Obsessing Over On Your Website: a.k.a. “Can I get that button in cornflower blue?”
December 17, 2010 By 1 Comment
When you kick off your next webstite or refresh the one you already have, focus on what matters and what will get you results (content, leads, whatever…), not what won’t. Put another way, don’t focus on things that really just serve to distract you from the real work of building a business website. Definte your …Read More
Evernote Power Tip – Dynamic ToDo Lists
June 22, 2010 By 13 Comments
I’ve been an Evernote user and big fan of the application for sometime now but one thing I’ve struggled with in the application has been the disconnect between my notes and the various ToDo’s associated with them. Sometime ago Evernote introduced the ability to insert a checkbox (instructions at the bottom of this post) into …Read More
Think About Your Website Like This…
May 24, 2010 By 2 Comments
The fact is that if most people treated their cars like the treat their website no one would get anywhere. I’ve built a lot of websites, especially in the last two years, and I’ve realized that I don’t always do a good job of explaining to people what they need to know about them. What …Read More
How to Simplify Your Life (or Anything) in 4 Easy Steps
March 16, 2010 By 11 Comments
Over the last couple of years I’ve been on a kick trying to streamline and simplify my life in any way possible. I’m a firm believer in “less is more” and while I’m no minimalist, scaling down has been a breath of fresh air. Along the way, I found I was following a similar process …Read More
6 Simple Ways To Better Google Search Results
December 27, 2009 By Leave a Comment
There a number of simple techniques that can help you get better, more accurate search results when using Google. Most of the time we just type in the search phrase we think most accurately represents what we are looking for and the results are pretty good. But sometimes we don’t quite get to what we …Read More
Create a Favicon For Your Website
December 20, 2009 By 2 Comments
Favicons are one of those little branding things that really are a “small touch” but make the whole site look a little more polished and professional. And let’s face it, when you attach one to your site it just feels cool. I still grin every time I add one! If you’re aren’t quite sure what …Read More
Easily Resize Images for the Web and Email
December 20, 2009 By 5 Comments
Multimedia is all over the web now and video in particular is catching on but for most of us, images will are the most common form of media we’ll add to our websites. Despite how frequently they are used one thing a lot of people don’t do is appropriately re-size images for their site or …Read More
Building The Ultimate Website Content Map Pt.1
December 10, 2009 By 45 Comments
All too often when we start to build a site (or rebuild one) the inclination is to begin with design. But the content we populate the site with is the true foundation, whether it is purely informational, geared toward selling, entertaining or serving whatever purpose your site has. The video tutorial below is a high-level …Read More
